“I grew up where we made basketball great, going to Rucker Park,” he explained. “My best friend's a playground hero. Joe Hammond and Pee Wee Kirkland, we all grew up together ...

One of the pivotal turns in Paul Reubens’s life happened years before Pee-wee Herman, years before the “Playhouse,” years before the arrests. It was the mid-seventies, and Reubens was in his ...

(CREDIT: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Director Matt Wolf spent two years interviewing Paul Reubens for his new HBO documentary “Pee-Wee as Himself,” not realizing that the actor was ...

When filmmaker Matt Wolf begin conversations with Paul Reubens about a documentary – one that included his alter ego Pee-wee Herman – “it was clear there could be a power struggle.” ...

Paul Reubens’s performance as Pee-wee Herman gave fans “license to be weird.” At an underground cabaret, he cheered on his community of renegades. Paul Reubens, as seen in the documentary ...

During the time between his diagnosis and his death, Reubens remained active in several professional endeavors, including participating in a Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 35th Anniversary Tour and ...

A new documentary airing on HBO tonight will serve as the definitive portrait of Paul Reubens and his comedic alter-ego Pee-wee Herman. “Pee-wee as Himself” was primarily filmed prior to ...

“This is such a dumb thing to say,” Paul Reubens, creator of beloved children’s character Pee-wee Herman, admits in his new documentary, Pee-wee as Himself. “But death is so final that to ...

Paul Reubens — aka Pee-wee Herman — left a heartbreaking phone message for filmmaker Matt Wolf the day before he died. The two had been collaborating on “Pee-wee Herman as Himself,” a docu ...

You know him as "Pee-wee Herman," but in a new documentary, he wants you to know him simply as Paul Reubens. "Pee-wee as Himself," a two-part HBO series, shows a side of the beloved children's ...

The first time we see Paul Reubens in the documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” he is not playing Pee-wee Herman, the antic man-child he portrayed in comedy routines, movies, a children’s TV ...

Saturday-morning TV is traditionally for kids, but this quasi-adult drank many a weekend coffee watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” wishing I had a comfortable Chairry, a genie like Jambi ...